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Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet

Art and painting lesson 1: Primary and secondary colours · Set 441 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Two make one): Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?

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  1. 1.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + blue = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  2. 2.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) green (d) red
  3. 3.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green (d) red
  4. 4.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  6. 6.Which secondary colour has NO yellow in it? (a) green (b) purple (c) orange
  7. 7.True or false: the paint sum ? + red = orange needs red. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
  9. 9.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? blue + ? = purple (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
  10. 10.True or false: mixing red and blue paint makes purple. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🎨 Is red a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  12. 12.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the secondary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the tertiary colours (d) the primary colours
  15. 15.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
  16. 16.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
  17. 17.True or false: yellow is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
  19. 19.True or false: green is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎨 Mix blue and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  21. 21.🎨 Mix blue and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green
  22. 22.True or false: mixing blue and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) orange (c) red (d) green
  24. 24.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  26. 26.True or false: purple is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
  28. 28.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
  29. 29.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  30. 30.True or false: the paint sum ? + blue = green needs blue. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
  32. 32.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
  33. 33.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
  34. 34.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  35. 35.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
  36. 36.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
  38. 38.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
  39. 39.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes orange. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. red
  2. green
  3. red
  4. False
  5. orange
  6. purple
  7. False
  8. green
  9. red
  10. True
  11. primary colour
  12. True
  13. True
  14. the primary colours
  15. yellow
  16. orange
  17. True
  18. orange
  19. False
  20. green
  21. purple
  22. False
  23. red
  24. False
  25. secondary colour
  26. False
  27. 2
  28. 3
  29. secondary colour
  30. False
  31. blue
  32. 3
  33. yellow and red
  34. primary colour
  35. secondary colour
  36. True
  37. yellow
  38. primary colour
  39. True
  40. True

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